It looks like this city is going playlist-crazy. The latest we’ve spotted is something of a public service by fellow music blogger Folly of Youth: a 59-minute compilation of bands playing in Manchester this month. Here’s what’s included:

Malcolm Middleton Red Travellin’ Socks (29 June Night & Day BUY TICKETS)
We Were Promised Jet Packs Quiet Little Voices (16 June Night & Day BUY TICKETS)
King Creosote Nothing Rings True (9 June Ruby Lounge BUY TICKETS)
Broken Records Nearly Home (17 June Roadhouse BUY TICKETS)
Wavves Beach Demon (24 June Deaf Institute BUY TICKETS)
Teeth Mountain Ghost Science (10 June Star & Garter BUY TICKETS)
Jonquil Whistle Low (11 June Kro Bar BUY TICKETS)
The Wave Pictures Strawberry Cables (19 June Deaf Institute BUY TICKETS)
A Hawk and a Hacksaw Kertesz (22 June Ruby Lounge BUY TICKETS)
Dan Deacon Padding Ghost (2 June Club Academy BUY TICKETS)
Deerhoof Milk Man (29 June Deaf Institute BUY TICKETS)
The Joy Formidable Whirring (5 June Ruby Lounge BUY TICKETS)
The Horrors Sea Within A Sea (1 June Ruby Lounge BUY TICKETS)
M Ward Shangri-La (29 June Club Academy BUY TICKETS)

With us now being half way through the month of June, we’ve missed half of the gigs mentioned – but at least we’ll be ready come July!

For this show on Thursday 19 February:

Alan Courtis/Aaron Moore + Helhesten + Infinite Light + Beach Fuzz

Alan Courtis and Aaron Moore are touring as a duo in support of their new album on No=Fi. The latter plays with Volcano The Bear, who the Wire proclaim as being responsible for ‘producing some of the finest, wildest British music of the last 10 years on record and on stage’.

Helhesten are a three-piece from Deptford/Essex who employ clarinet, beat-up guitar, effected-voice and a variety of percussion to craft an aching flux of soaring and swamped-out sounds.

Infinite Light is the solo moniker of Warrington guitar improviser Barry Dean who has played with the likes of Stuckometer, Axis Mundi, Horse Hair and Beach Fuzz over the past few years.

Beach Fuzz is the stripped-down duo of Tom Settle and Nick Mitchell, playing bowed, scraped and intuitively picked lap steel, wailing, echo drenched fuzz synth, percussion and spontaneously composed vocals.

It’s happening from 7pm in Bernie’s garage at 76 Demesne Road, Whalley Range. There’s a £5 suggested donation. Visit Golden Lab Records’ Myspace for more information.

I missed one gig off this week’s round-up – because I didn’t know about it at the time. Now I do though, and you should too…

Jack ‘brother of Jeffrey’ Lewis and two others are Fishermen Three, a garage band from Portland, Oregon – so it’s highly appropriate that tomorrow, Friday 6 February, they’re performing in a garage. Also on the bill for this ‘very Informal gathering’ are Nick Ainsworth of Former Bullies and someone called Calum Plowright.

The garage in question is somewhere in Whalley Range, though its address won’t be published. For directions, you need to email organisers Comfortable on a Tightrope or text 07724 827 738. Be nice and prompt about it too – there’s obviously only room for a few dozen people.

Though he sounds less rocky with his current band, here’s Jack sounding pretty Pavement-y with the Cutoffs in 2006:

And if you can’t wait to see Fishermen Three, they’re opening for the Cribs tonight and tomorrow at the Ritz. The Sub Pop-signed Thermals also play.